It is certainly always an unusual experience for a player to return to a team they recently played for while wearing the uniform of a new club. That was certainly true for Gleyber Torres as the Tigers headed to the Bronx and Torres got to visit his old stomping ground with the Yankees.
While he was certainly happy to be playing for the team that had a nine-run seventh inning, he did speak to reporters about the experience of returning to New York and reflected on his time with the Yankees.
We get into
that and more in today’s links, so let’s just get right into it.
Detroit Tigers News
- Gleyber Torres opened up about his time in New York upon returning to the Bronx, and explained why Detroit is both the same and different. Jorge Castillo shared from Torres:
“I really loved playing in New York,” Torres said. “That’s the city everybody wants to play in. It was never pressure. It’s just frustration in the moment because I [didn’t] do my job. I didn’t play good defensively. At the [time], offensively, I didn’t do the job. And, as a player, you got egos and when things aren’t going your way, you’re always going to feel frustration because you’re young and that’s the big thing… Playing with Detroit, it’s the same mentality. Do the best I can do for the team and it’s never pressure. It’s just, I think, the pressure is on myself to get better every time and do my job. I think that’s always my mentality.”
- Don’t call it a comeback…
- A slight roster update.
MLB News
- The Red Sox are making an Early prospect call-up.
- Shohei Ohtani is almost the best leadoff hitter ever… again.
- So long, Yogi. The Tigers help Aaron Judge become fifth all-time on the Yankees’ home run list.
- Angels minor leaguer Rio Foster was involved in a car accident that required brain surgery, and despite being employed by billionaires, there is a GoFundMe set up to support him.
- Ken Rosenthal shares the story of a former major-leaguer who is working to bring baseball to Native American communities. ($)
- Maury Brown offers a solution for MLB’s salary cap problem.
- How FanGraphs measures baserunner aggression.
- This Giants rookie has one truly bizarre dugout celebration.
- Wander Franco has been admitted to a clinic for mental health issues. He was detained at the request of his family.
